India

Aid organizations are calling on Indian leaders to resist US pressure to change India's patent laws in favor of the pharmaceutical industry.

Thousands of girls and women are sexually abused, tortured and murdered in a tide of gender-based violence that shows no sign of slowing, fueled by conflict and lack of …

India's government has taken a number of actions that dilute the scope of environment-related legislation.

Increasing levels of violence across India are taking their toll on women and cutting off access to crucial reproductive health services.

A whopping 160 million women in India, are confined to their homes rather than gainfully employed in the formal job sector.

Jayati Ghosh critiques the first budget presented by new Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.

We need to go back to where all the ladders start, at the rag and bone shop of the heart, at the Human Rights level.

Monsanto's herbicide Roundup has been linked to a mysterious fatal kidney disease epidemic that has appeared in Central America, Sri Lanka and India.

If the Indian drug industry makes the patent system unviable, we may finally adopt a 21st century system for financing the development of new drugs.

India's new Bharatiya Janata Party has a pull-out-the-stops development policy that includes targeting environmental advocacy NGOs, investment in dubious hydro projects and opening fragile border areas to military infrastructure.